A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1942 – Barry Levinson, American producer and director

* 1942 – Carlos Reutemann, Argentine race car driver and politician

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist ( Captain & Tennille )

* 1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland

* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist ( d. 2012 )

* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player ( d. 2001 )

* 1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American drummer, pianist, and composer ( Gateway and Trio Beyond )

* 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and author

* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author

* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – André Gagnon, Canadian pianist and composer

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor

* 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1872 )

In 1942, the United States initiated its international broadcasting service, the Voice of America.

On October 15, 1942, Cousens was joined at Radio Tokyo by American Army Captain Wallace " Ted " Ince and Philippine Army Lieutenant Normando Ildefonso " Norman " Reyes, both captured at Corregidor, where they'd been in charge of the " Voice of Freedom " Allied propaganda broadcasts.

By the third film, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror ( 1942 ), now at Universal Studios, Holmes was updated to the present day.

The first Voice of Prophecy coast-to-coast broadcast was over 89 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System on Sunday, January 4, 1942.

" The Voice of China " broadcast in 1942

The Voice of America ( or VOA ) began broadcasting in 1942 as a result of the United States entry into World War II and was introduced with the Yankee Doodle theme that is still familiar to shortwave listeners.

The patriotic sentiment of the above passage has been widely quoted, and was later used in the final scene of the Basil Rathbone film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror ( 1942 ), set in World War II although it is presented as if Holmes were quoting Churchill.

He made his first film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror in 1942 and by the end of his career had appeared in sixty films.

OWI also established the Voice of America in 1942, which remains in service today as the official government broadcasting service of the United States.

Radio Broadcast – Voice of Freedom – Malinta Tunnel – Corregidor – April 9, 1942:

The purpose was to make permanent various information and exchange activities that began as early as a decade before, including the Voice of America radio broadcasts that began in 1942.

* Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror ( 1942 )

*" Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror " 1942

* The Voice Commands ( circa 1942 chap US ) as by Dennis Clive

* " His Voice to the Navy ," The Kansas City Star, January 3, 1942.

The completed films included the seven-episode Why We Fight series — consisting of Prelude to War ( 1942 ), The Nazis Strike ( 1942 ), Divide and Conquer ( 1943 ), The Battle of Britain ( 1943 ), The Battle of Russia ( 1943 ), The Battle of China ( 1944 ), War Comes to America ( 1945 ) – plus Know Your Enemy: Japan ( 1945 ), Tunisian Victory ( 1945 ), and Two Down and One to Go ( 1945 ) that do not bear the Why We Fight banner ; as well as the African-American related, The Negro Soldier ( 1944 ).

This would have again significantly disturbed the Liberian economy, but America had already in 1942 begun investing substantially in Liberia, in projects related to America ’ s war effort.

* And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America ( 1942 )

As part of the Lend-Lease agreement, America built Wideawake airport on Ascension in 1942, but no military use was made of St Helena.

* Negro Major Baseball League Of America, 1942.

Perot joined the Boy Scouts of America and made Eagle Scout in 1942, after thirteen months in the program.

Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942 ) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter, who has been described by Forbes as " the most powerful pundit in America ".

SWOC became the United Steelworkers of America ( USWA ) in 1942.

The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of loyalty to the federal flag and the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942.

The Tribunes June 7, 1942, front page announcement that America had broken Japan's naval code was actually the potential revelation of a closely guarded military secret by the paper.

In 1941, Wyler directed one of the key films that galvanized support for Britain and against the Nazis in an America slow to awaken to the threat in Europe, it was Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), a story of a middle class English family adjusting to the war in Europe.

He became a naturalised citizen of the United States in 1942, eight months after America entered World War II.

The Secret War Against America, by Michael Sayers & Albert E. Kahn ( Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942 ).

Hu Shih's tombstone in the park named after him, near Academia Sinica in Taiwan Hu was the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States of America between 1938 and 1942.

In May 1942, during World War II, the town was selected by the War Department to be highlighted in a defense booklet called Southington, CT — Microcosm of America.

Was Who in America, 40 ( Chicago, 1942 ).

* JCC Camps at Medford near Medford Lakes is the largest Jewish day camp in North America, operating since 1942.

For a brief period in 1942, they were known as the Justice Battalion, as they became an extension of the armed forces of the United States of America during World War II.

Gradually at first, America was able to supply New Zealand with aircraft for use in the Pacific Theatre — initially, in 1942, Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks and additional Harvards and Hudsons.

Lester Randolph Ford, Sr. ( October 25, 1886 – November 11, 1967 ) was an American mathematician, editor of the American Mathematical Monthly from 1942 to 1946, and President of the Mathematical Association of America from 1947 to 1948.

During World War II the Women's Land Army of America was also formed in the United States as part of the Emergency Farm Labor Service, lasting from 1943 to 1947, and the Australian Women's Land Army was formed in Australia, lasting from 27 July 1942 until 1945.